I think it shows it's always good to fire someone like you and your associate, especially while you and your country are basking in U.S. aid. You have made Hitler smile with approval. Well done, ally. Perhaps you would be happier seeking handouts from your surrounding nations.

Silence? Just shows you what our "friends" are teaching their children...in SCHOOL.

"Everybody knows we made a mistake, (yikes, we got caught)" said Jordana Klein, spokeswoman for Sha'alei Torah. "We wouldn't do it again (cause they're watching us now and we might get caught again). We don't think it's the right thing to do (get caught, I mean)."

"In principle, the ministry condemns book-burning as an educational act," she said."

What a bunch of Clintonian weasel-words. I suppose the ministry does NOT condemn book-burning as an ADMINISTRATIVE act, or an HISTORIC act but only as an EDUCATIONAL act? Boy! That sure clears it up for me, yezzir! Some of those old Nazi tactics sure die hard, don't they?

Lets modify the scenario slightly. Say you are sending your kid to a private school here in America that stresses Christian, Conservative, Free Enterprise, traditional American values. A group comes to your community and starts handing out copies of the Communist Manifesto to your kids as a means of encouraging membership in the Communist party. Would it be as wrong for one of the teachers to burn a copy of the Communist Manifesto?

Would it be as wrong for one of the teachers to burn a copy of the Communist Manifesto?

Do you suppose a more responsible way to deal with it might be to compare the ten planks of the Manifesto and explain how communism IS affecting them. Even YOUNG kids can understand such loss of freedom. (If only teachers would do so).

the book-burning was an anti-missionary activity and not an anti-Christian one ; "It was appropriate to burn the New Testament in private,"; The teacher said that if missionary material were found in the school again, it would be thrown into the garbage rather than publicly burned.

Oh my! Its hard to tell the difference between the Taliban and Israel with this sort of law and logic in play. I have always been offended by a religious symbol (Star of David) on the side of police cars, tanks, fighter aircraft, and ambulances in Israel. Hell, democrats do this sort of thing in this country all the time. But at this crucial junction marking the safety and life of people around the world, one would think that any thinking person would be more interested in slowing the flames of hatred instead of fanning them.

Israel is indeed threatened, and has been since its inception. I am a Christian  Yet I will always defend her. If some Jews become Christian along the way  or some Christians become Jews along the way  so what! This is not a religious war between Christians and Jews. What this is, is simply a need and a choice or each man on earth to find his/her own path through life. We are all only trying to raise families, live decent lives. Every really good Jew should be happy when someone among them finds the path to heaven.

Israel needs to back off with the religious police approach and spend more time and effort on (they already do) defending their right to exist. The hate groups in the Islamic factions need to be eliminated. This is where the real effort needs to be and where the real effort needs to be focused. Forget about some high school kid that might be reading the New Testament in the bathroom  be happy it wasnt a Playboy.

I just couldn't ever agree that burning information of any kind is a logical solution to anything. Refute it. Debate it. Argue it into oblivion, but the reactionary destruction of any kind of literature seems to me to be an affirmation that there's something in the material that threatens a dogma and I reject dogma of any kind.

This post perfectly illustrates the Christian, Jewish and Muslim triangle. The Jews just want to be left alone. The Christians are friendly, but meddlesome. The Muslims want to die trying kill every non-muslim and get his share of the available heavenly virgins.

"The teacher said: 'God sent it and He gave us the privilege, and we'll be able to burn the New Testament," said Ariel Lesnick, 11, who is in the class.......The teacher emphasized that the book-burning was an anti-missionary activity and not an anti-Christian one, Lesnick said......."It was appropriate to burn the New Testament in private," wrote Spector in his ruling. He cited traditional and modern rabbis, including Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, who wrote that he had burned missionary texts, which he called "books of incitement and brainwashing." Such burning is permissible even if the texts include the name of God, Spector said.

Gee whiz! Goebbels would be impressed with the "logic" in this rationalization.

You bet they would ... along with the cough drops, tylonol, midol, pictures of guns or knives and a whole host of other zero tolerance garbage. Everyone has gotten SO ridiculously intolerant in this wonderfully diversified world we live in these days.

Yes, I doubt it - - having been in (christian) Sunday schools where such nonChristian literature was discussed - not burned.

Are you talking about non Christian literature or non Christian MISSIONARY literature.. And was this a planned class, or a discussion that spontaneously happened because a child brought missionary literature to class?

Yes, I doubt it. In fact, I would think that a teacher in a Christian school would probably be fired for burning a Koran or a Talmud in front of his class. The idea of Jews burning Bibles is repulsive, despite any hypothetical "what if" you can dream up.

The idea of Jews burning Bibles is repulsive, despite any hypothetical "what if" you can dream up.

That is probably why they said they were wrong, apologized, and set a process to avoid such mistakes in the future. Now when do you expect to see an apology from the Islamists massacring Christians in Indonesia on Christmas Eve?

A mob of several hundred ultra-Orthodox Jews besieged an old Arab structure in Be'er Sheva yesterday after a rumor spread in the city's synagogues that missionaries were baptizing Jewish children.

The Haredim stopped their prayers to go to the house, where they found about 40 people, including women and children, who are members of the messianic movement Jews for Jesus. The movement has met in the same building for 17 years.

Police Chief Superintendent Kobi Cohen, who headed the police force that arrived at the scene, said police rescued the trapped worshipers and escorted them past the singing and dancing demonstrators.

A messianic Jew who was in the area described the experience as terrifying. "A mob of men in black surrounded us and were shouting and throwing stones and they tried to jump over the fence. We were especially scared for the children. We're not missionaries. We are Jews just like those who want to kick us out. We all believe in the same god, but we also believe in love and tolerance," he said.

A few days ago in Kiryat Malachi, several dozen youths from a Chabad high school attacked an American couple whom they suspected were missionaries. The boys hurled stones at the house of the new immigrants, who moved to the city three months ago. The couple denied engaging in any missionary activity and said they belonged to a humanitarian organization based in Switzerland and came to Kiryat Malachi to work with Ethiopian immigrants.

Two weeks ago, a mob of ultra-Orthodox men attacked and ransacked an apartment rented by three Swiss Christian women they accused of conducting missionary activity in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea She'arim. The women denied the accusations.

?? Who is the publisher? ?? What is this Hebrew N.T. called? Title? ?? What original source-language 'text' is it translated from? ?? Who are its authors, editors, translators, and illustrators? ?? When (year)(s) published? Versions? Houses? ?? Is it a Cult-perversion text and NOT Scripture!...? ?? Who? Which? 'Christian' groups 'support-endorse' this 'text'? ?? Who? Which? 'Christian' groups Actively DO NOT 'support-endorse' this 'text'?

BOTTOM LINE:: Maybe, this 'text' NEEDED TO BE BURNED!!!

Think it through..........there ARE MANY DECEIVERS & LIARS 'fooling' both Jewish peoples and Gentile peoples!!! (Does this 'text' retain, 1st John 5:7......?) If it doesn't have, 1st John 5:7.......o.k., burn it!!! :-( :-)

Rev. Ray Lockhart, director of the Jerusalem-based Israel Trust of the Anglican Church, said burning the New Testament so publicly was "going over the top somewhat." Lockhart, whose organization focuses on ministry to the Jews, added that it's preferable to get a signed statement from parents before giving Christian scriptures to a minor.

Attendance at Anglican Churches in England have been in decline for decades. Maybe they should be devoting more time ministering to Anglicans in England and less to Jews in Israel.

Where Christians insist that it is their duty, Jews must insist that they will resist. We can't always agree.

A very good summary of the situation, Christians have a duty to tell the 'Good News' (Godspell, Gospel, Evangelize), which is English, Old English, and Anglicized Greek, for it, among others. No other person has a duty to be convinced, except in the most abstract sense of that term.

People have a right to be annoyed by missionaries, as most Christians are when Mormon or 7th Day Adventist missionaries arrive at the door. The Arab approach, which is to kill the missionaries, and anyone who converts, is unlikely to be adopted in Israel anytime soon, I believe (LOL)

Were you brainwashed? Forced to marry at 13? Made to turn over all you possesions to your minister? What kind of cult are the fundamentalist Baptists?

LOL. No, I wasn't forced to marry at 13. But...like the Taliban...we were prohibited from seeing movies, no dancing, no playing cards, no listening to pop music, no skirts which were not at least 3 inches below the knees, no wearing pants (I'm female), prayers at least 3 times at day (mealtimes), etc. In general, the same rules and regulations which you will find at Bob Jones University.

I'm not saying this was horrible way to live, and I was actually joking about it being a cult, but it is not the way I choose to live today. Even my father now sees that these lifestyle rules have little to do with faith.

A mistake? A mistake would be accidentally dropping the flame from your cigarette onto the pages of the New Testament.

And maybe you could straighten me out on another little misconception ... kids in Christian schools, Sunday Schools and Bible Schools all study from the bible, which contains (part of) the Jewish part ... the Torah. But it seems that kids in Jewish school aren't even allowed to lay eyes on the Christian part. Oh, I forgot, the Christian part is heresy which deserves to be burned (but only in secret, of course).

Its passing strange to me that Christians can't get their minds all the way around the fact that Islam at least acknowledges Jesus as a key biblical figure, whereas Judeaism denies him altogether ...

and Bible Schools all study from the bible, which contains (part of) the Jewish part ... the Torah. But it seems that kids in Jewish school aren't even allowed to lay eyes on the Christian part. Oh, I forgot, the Christian part is heresy which deserves to be burned (but only in secret, of course).

Well, seeing how Christianity came out of Judaism, it would be kind of hard to teach Christianity without the Torah.

Its passing strange to me that Christians can't get their minds all the way around the fact that Islam at least acknowledges Jesus as a key biblical figure, whereas Judeaism denies him altogether ...

Its passing strange to me that Christians can't get their minds all the way around the fact that Islam at least acknowledges Jesus as a key biblical figure, whereas Judeaism denies him altogether ...

And this is some sort of surprise to you? Islam is a heresy of both Judaism and Christianity, so it has to acknowledge the truth of it's sources. Judaism regards Christianity as a heresy of Judaism, when they acknowledge that much of a connection. They would no more honor Jesus than Christians honor Mohammed, nor should they, considering their beliefs.

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